Good College Towns/Neighborhoods

College Search & Selection
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<p>What colleges/universities have a good college town right off campus or in short walking distance of the campus? I’m thinking in terms of restaurants, cafes, bookstores, etc.----not just a strip of bars--- that exist largely because of their proximity to the school. These could range from smaller, quieter towns like Oberlin to larger, busier, and more vibrant areas like Harvard Square. For schools in more urban areas, these might be particular neighborhoods, but they should be districts/neighborhoods distinct from their larger surrounding cities..</p>

<p>Here are some---any others?
Dartmouth (Hanover)
Middlebury
Hope (Holland, MI)
Smith (Northampton)
Vermont (Burlington)
Harvard (Harvard Square)
Oklahoma (Campus Corners, Norman)
UC-Davis
Indiana (Bloomington)
Kansas U (Lawrence)
Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Wisconsin (Madison)
Cornell (Ithaca)
Chicago (Hyde Park neighborhood)
Princeton
Missouri (Columbia)
Oberlin
North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Colorado (Boulder)
Oregon (Eugene)
Texas (Austin)
Virginia (Charlottesville)</p>

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<p>Georgia (Athens)</p>

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<p>My God, tell me you just did not leave out Columbia (NYC), NYU (NYC). You need to exclude Cornell. If a University has it’s own area code, then there’s a problem.</p>

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I do not really consider NYC a college town, it is a great place to go for some, but I assume the OP is looking for places more in the Chapel Hill/Madison/Charlottesville mold judging by his exclusion of NYC and Boston schools.</p>

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<p>Ann Arbor is one of the very best.</p>

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<p>^
Ann Arbor made his list. He was asking for further suggestions.</p>

<p>Gainesville should also make the list.</p>

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<p>Providence for sure.</p>

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<p>Stanford has it’s own area code</p>

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<p>^^So much for that theory!</p>

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<p>Northwestern (Evanston) and Yale (New Haven). While Providence is not a “college town” necessarily, it’s a great city for a college student to live in. So Brown (Providence).</p>

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<p>Naval Academy and St. John’s College (Annapolis).</p>

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<p>Rice University is in the Museum District of Houston and next to the Rice Village shopping center… there are many of museums, parks, restaurants, and shops within walking distance of Rice. We are also 20 min away from the nation’s 7th largest shopping mall, the Galleria. Many airline in-flight magazines lists Rice Village as a Houston shopping destination.</p>

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<p>Actually, all of Cambridge is a nice college town. Central Square is arguably an even more interesting, albeit sketchier, neighborhood than is Harvard Square. Hence, the listing should be:</p>

<p>Harvard - Cambridge
MIT - Cambridge</p>

<p>However, I would argue that the most interesting college town is still Berkeley.</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley has a ton of restaurants and retail stores just outside its gates. </p>

<p>WashU has “the Loop” with restaurants, vintage stores, music venues, theater etc. within walking distance.</p>

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<p>Do not know what “own area code” has to do with anything. Cornell’s “collegetown,” sure fits the op’s discription–

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